Spur-winged Lapwing

Hoplopterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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STATUS

Africa and Middle East. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

Species not admitted nationally (BOU 1971).

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NOT PROVEN

0). 1910 Sussex Near Hailsham, killed, October.

(Walpole-Bond, 1938).

[Walpole-Bond, 1938].

History Walpole-Bond (1938 (3): 149) recording the record in square-brackets, says: 'Arnold (1936) mentions one that was killed near Hailsham in October, 1910. It must have been an escaped importation.'